shaw1

shaw2

/ʃɔː/

verb

1.

to show

noun

2.

a show

3.

the part of a potato plant that is above ground

Shaw

/ʃɔː/

noun

1.

Artie, original name Arthur Arshawsky. 1910–2004, US jazz clarinetist, band leader, and composer

2.

George Bernard, often known as GBS. 1856–1950, Irish dramatist and critic, in England from 1876. He was an active socialist and became a member of the Fabian Society but his major works are effective as satiric attacks rather than political tracts. These include Arms and the Man (1894), Candida (1894), Man and Superman (1903), Major Barbara (1905), Pygmalion (1913), Back to Methuselah (1921), and St Joan (1923): Nobel prize for literature 1925

shaw

n.

"strip of wood forming the border of a field," 1570s, from Old English sceaga "copse," cognate with North Frisian skage "farthest edge of cultivated land," Old Norse skage "promontory," and perhaps with Old English sceaga "rough matted hair" (see shag (n.)). The Old English word also is the source of the surname Shaw (attested from late 12c.) and its related forms.